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Cwt y Bugail in Blaenau Ffestiniog and Penrhyn and Gloddfa Ganol
Sector
Mining / Quarrying Mining And Quarrying Other Mining And Quarrying 08 - Other mining and quarrying
175 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
14 March 2007
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
A meeting between unions and company managers to discuss the future of around 175 jobs at three Gwynedd slate quarries, has been postponed. Last month, Alfred McAlpine Slate announced plans to cut the posts. The firm was expected to announce on 16 April that volunteers had come forward to accept 70 redundancies as Penrhyn Quarry in Bethesda is scaled down. Workers are still facing 105 compulsory redundancies at the other two quarries in Blaenau Ffestiniog. Blaenau's Cwt y Bugail quarry is set to be closed down, while the workforce at the Gloddfa Ganol site is being cut back. The meeting scheduled for 16 April was due to be held under the statutory 90-day rule obliging management and unions to hold discussions. The meeting is now expected to be held on 18 April.
Sources
14 March 2007: BBC Website
16 April 2007: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Alfred McAlpine Plc, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 65091, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65091.
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